New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-27
RECENT EXPEDITIONS IN GREECE.



AMERICAN SCHOOL AT ATHENS.
Professor W. W. Goodwin or Harvard College the first
director of the American School OF Classical Studies at
Athens ecuro1 asst night in Association Hall before the
Archaeological Society "Study and Exploration In
Greece" Professor Goodwins talk was the last OF n
series in aid OF the American School Professor Merrill OF
Columbia College who will ont 10 Greece this summer
director. sat the platform and introduced tho Ice
tnrer
Professor Goodwin began with a brief review OF the
work and prospects OF tie American School, and said
that 1t would have permanent home In October on
ground coded TO 1t by the Greek Government
lie then turned to the work OF excavation
going on in all parts Of Greece. giving
his impressions Of gathered in the course Of vaca-
tons travel In the Greek peninsula. Shllcmauns dis
coycrie Myccne and Troy lac said had been so 90.
scuTcd by the mass ol matter written hnout tneh INA.
who had anything else 10 do could ever make ont
Just what the learned German doctor aD0rs amounted
To- The relics uucarihcd Mycen1 plainly belonged.
the period before the Dorc invasion OF The
thcirhoghto power other time could MycenT have
afforded to bury treasure In gold and silver, worth
Whether the relics actually belonged to an actual Aga
memnon Of course another question The tomb, be-
Of the Troy that Schiiemann dug into. Yet the
HomerIc legends tho Trojan war, tho picture OF
the wealth and luxury 81 Iaccdemon under Aganennon
and Mcnclaus were founded. Professor Goodwin thought
fled by the descendants Of the Achrans b,nished TO
and heard from their lips there BY the writer OF the
The lecturer then gave somc OF tho
tons made by the German nj olympia. The site OF the
famous Oympnn games. There lac had seen lying IN u
rough 9hcd broken In parts, tho wonderful Hcrmcs OF
PraXitele- and the Victory Of Peonos. In a museum
naar los were quantity of human bones Just cNhumod.
packed carefully away In I'm The cases. he noted.
on turning around nothing but Kerosene oil
cans each labelled d" Philadelphia"
At Delphi the French were soon to begin ex-
cayatons, having to buy the ground above ApoNo's
temple and the OF his oracle AT most cNorlant
prices from the peasant holders The Sacred valley oi
Dclphi n he found II. still dark and silent ana
mysterious shaded BY steep mountain walls aud thicE.
black woods.
II was Athens however. that cred the most 10 al
tract either student explorer. The modern city of
hthcn, was only nifty years old yet already with tho
Port OF Plf.rus, 1t had 10000 Inhabitants. nuke
Rome IL had 10 museums collections. The chief art
treasures were It's ruins in the open air Tho Romans,
Vcuetans Turks and Lord E1n together had not been
able 10 destroy remnants OF Greek art entirely LORD
Eln however Professor Goodwin Thought dld the best
thing under the circumstances. when he carried
away his columns and iriezes 10 London. Ihe
Veuctians did worse. IL was Venetian admiral who
blew the Pantheon pieces with bombshcll LNeh tho
other day monument erected IN one OF the squares
OF Venice 10 tie DOgc under whom the conquest ana de-
srctcu of Aiica were effected. The lecturer then ran
over the chief ruins OF Athens describing lh"r present
state and pasi rlorcs No classical education was com
plctc which lacked personal impression OF thess s
famous scenes ard historic buildings. TWAS the chiet
merit of tie American School that II brought every
teacher pupil In II into contact with past that Do
came after that contact almost IA reality.